PHH Corporation and Pennant Capital Management Jointly Announce Certified Results of 2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
MT. LAUREL, N.J. & CHATHAM, N.J.--PHH Corporation (“PHH” or the “Company”) and Pennant Capital Management, LLC (“Pennant”) today jointly announced the results of the proposals considered at PHH’s 2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “2009 Annual Meeting”) as certified by Corporate Election Services, the independent Inspectors of Election hired to count the votes and certify the voting results. At the 2009 Annual Meeting, PHH’s stockholders elected James O. Egan, Allan Z. Loren and Gregory J. Parseghian as Class I Directors to serve for three year terms, ratified the selection of Deloitte & Touche LLP as PHH’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2009, approved the PHH Corporation Amended and Restated 2005 Equity and Incentive Plan, and approved the amendment of PHH’s Articles of Amendment and Restatement (as amended) to increase the Company’s number of shares of authorized capital stock from 110,000,000 shares to 275,000,000 shares and the authorized number of shares of common stock from 108,910,000 shares to 273,910,000 shares.
Stockholders representing 46,488,200 shares of PHH common stock were present at the 2009 Annual Meeting in person or by proxy, representing 85.5% of the 54,388,877 shares of PHH common stock outstanding as of the record date of April 22, 2009. The results of the votes cast at the 2009 Annual Meeting as certified by Corporate Election Services are as follows:
Proposal No. 1 – Director Election Proposal: |
FOR |
WITHHELD |
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A. B. Krongard | 18,210,666 | 303,855 | ||||
Terence W. Edwards | 18,391,254 | 123,267 | ||||
James O. Egan | 44,362,581 | 243,926 | ||||
Allan Z. Loren | 25,918,027 | 173,959 | ||||
Gregory J. Parseghian | 25,924,544 | 167,442 | ||||
FOR |
AGAINST |
ABSTAIN |
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Proposal No. 2 – Ratification of Auditors Proposal: | 44,300,521 | 196,987 | 108,999 | |||
Proposal No. 3 – Incentive Plan Proposal: | 37,244,934 | 7,231,934 | 129,639 | |||
Proposal No. 4 – Charter Amendment Proposal: | 27,229,701 | 19,126,266 | 132,233 |